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Electric bicycles set to revolutionise cycling

Electric assist bicycles are set to revolutionise cycling in Britain, according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).

Boris Bikes are go! 5,000 bicycles now for hire in London

London’s long-awaited mass cycle hire scheme has launched today with 315 docking stations and 5000 bikes available.

Electric car grant fund capped at £43m

The £5,000 grant for buyers of electric cars, which seemed under threat when business secretary, Vince Cable, failed to mention it in the recent emergency budget, will go ahead in January 2011.

Royal Mail fears letters are too heavy for bicycles

Royal Mail claims that increasingly heavy loads are the reason behind its decision to withdraw delivery bicycles in favour of diesel-powered vans.

The taxing problem of cows, cars and climate change

The need to reduce the amount of gas emitted each day by cattle is more than simply a question of good farmyard etiquette; the greenhouse effect of methane emitted collectively by this country’s 10 million cows is equivalent to the CO2 produced by driving one third of a billion miles by car.

Toyota to sell Tesla-powered electric car

An updated version of the all-electric Toyota RAV4 EV, a vehicle that was available to lease in America from 1997 to 2003, is to be developed with help from Tesla. Toyota expects to mass-produce the new car by 2012.

The electric bicycle that does 60mph, but costs more than a Porsche

The competition between manufacturers to build the fastest electric bicycle can seem purely academic to cyclists in Britain where such machines must be registered as motorcycles in order to be road legal, but the recently-launched, German-designed ‘Blacktrail’ is a fascinating insight into the type of electric-assist bike that might one day be commonplace.

London gets first two Cycle Superhighways

London’s first distinctive blue cycle lane ‘Superhighways’ opened this week from Merton to the City, and Barking to Tower Gateway.

The bicycle lock that calls your iPhone to say it’s been smashed

American inventor Steve Hunt has designed a bicycle lock that, if tampered with, calls you on your smart phone.

Bionic legs may walk all over the electric car

An electric robotic exoskeleton that allows wheelchair users to walk and climb stairs unaided went on sale this week and offer an exciting future alternative to electric cars.

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